Also add Cllr Joe Pollard, another Tory Bexley councillor, and also Katie Perrior, who ran Boris' PR during campaign, but is also a Tory Bexley councillor.

Perhaps you should also mention that James Brokenshire MP is currently MP for Hornchurch, but has been selected as Tory PPC for... Old Bexley and Sidcup. It does seem Clement can't quite remove himself from his Bexley Tory circles in his wider remit for London.

Anyone wonder, looking at the details of what he claimed, what the £108.00 spent in the Premier Inn in Putney on June 26th 2008 was for? I mean there are better, and cheaper restaurants to eat in around that area, so I find it hard to believe a man used to lunching or dining at the Pont de Tour or Butler’s Wharf Chophouse would have chosen to eat at a Premier Inn.

The card used to make the booking then appears to be credited back with the same amount a day (night?) later.

"Depends. Maybe they're not dining with each other in The Ritz, maybe they're having modest working lunches...like happens in the private sector." - It may happen in the private sector, but shouldn't in the public sector. Its my and your money. It is also specifically forbidden under GLA rules to do that. Maybe the Mayor’s office thinks the rules don't apply to them?

There are some very serious questions, obviously, but it seems that the culture of Westminbster seems to have followed Boris to City Hall. Given that Boris had the most thorough and expensive (and biased)forensic team to investigate expenditure under Ken and they found not a postage stamp fiddled, we ahve to assume that this is new, although if things weren't well scrutinised before there probably were a few odd claims. (Had Ken bought a frog house for his newts we would certainly ahve heard about it)The other matter is this: will David Cameron express his outrage as the Tory leader, will Ian Clement be de-selected as Labour MPs have rightly suffered?Will Boris be decisive?

The article reveals that Boris was refused an expense claim of £500 to pay Simon Stacpoole, who runs Boriswatch.com (but Mr Stacpoole was paid £1,000 to build a website for Boris in November 2007 - when was Boriswatch.com established?).

So Boris was asking the taxpayer to subsidise his political campaign completely seperate to his constituency work.

And one which makes no mention of its links to Boris http://www.boriswatch.com/about/